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<title><![CDATA[Jed Babbin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14770.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jed Babbin]]></description><category domain="14770">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[George W. Bush Still Gets Islam Wrong After 9/11]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/sep/15/george-w-bush-still-gets-islam-wrong-911/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 25th anniversary revives a debate over jihad, terrorism and what schools should teach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mamdani Warning]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-mamdani-warning/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a political phenomenon you won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t find in other countries. He was born in Uganda and came to this country at about the age of seven. His father is a Harvard-educated anthropologist '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Mahmood Mamdani '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and his mother is a noted film...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Missing Definition of Victory in Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-missing-definition-of-victory-in-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the fighting with Iran enters its third week, President Trump declares victory '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but the White House has yet to define what winning means.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Did a Lot for the Military in 2025, But More Is Needed]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/a-trump-worthy-year-for-the-military/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has done a lot to and for the military this year. Overall, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been a very good year for our men and women in uniform.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday, Marines]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/happy-birthday-marines/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We owe the Marines our gratitude for their courage and their unwavering '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Semper Fidelis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' service to the nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Ukraine Become Biden's Forever War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/22/will-ukraine-become-bidens-forever-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The phrase to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'drag one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s coat'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' goes back to the 19th century. It probably arose in the context of Irishmen picking fights at the Donnybrook Fair. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a provocation, daring someone to step on your coat so you can start a fight.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are the Bidens a Crime Family? Evidence Says 'Yes']]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-biden-crime-family/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two IRS whistleblowers have essentially blown the case against the Bidens wide open. They're influencing policies for money.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will China Knock Out America's Satellites?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/17/will-china-knock-out-americas-satellites/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The biggest strategic and tactical advantages we have over our adversaries are probably the enormous capabilities that our hundreds of military and intelligence satellites provide.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Deal II: Biden's Next Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/iran-deal-ii-bidens-next-disaster/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing will stop Biden from appeasing his way to a new Iran Deal, if only to show up Obama's 2015 deal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin's Woke Military Undermines U.S. Security]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/bidens-woke-appeasers-trash-u-s-military-readiness/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our president and his military policies are practically begging Putin to help himself with however much he wants of Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From MAGA to 'Let's Go Brandon' in 12 Miserable Months]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/2021-from-maga-to-lets-go-brandon-in-twelve-miserable-months/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Call him Biden, call him Brandon, just don't call him most likely to succeed in 2022.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biggest 'Super-Spreader' Event: Biden's Weak Border]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/biden-the-super-spreader-border-and-covid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's policies of mask-wearing and open borders are doing nothing to stop the COVID spread. Most Americans aren't wearing masks again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden&rsquo;s Pale Red Lines]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/bidens-pale-red-line/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the pandemic, I wrote with gratitude about our screens, which kept us connected when things were locked down.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Reversing All of Trump's Progress in Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/biden-israel-palestinian-authority/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's dislike of Netanyahu and support of the Palestinian Authority shows just how much respect he has for our relationship with Israel.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Is Eating Biden's Lunch]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/china-biden-xi-jinping/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite all Biden's talk of strengthening the Quad Alliance against China, he will continue to let Xi eat America's lunch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Biden Doctrine Puts American Interests Last]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/biden-foreign-policy-doctrine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't expect Biden's doctrine to further any American interests. Our national security will take a backseat and the UN is driving.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One of Barack Obama's Worst Advisers Is Back]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/susan-rice-biden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By naming Susan Rice to be his chief domestic policy adviser, Biden is embracing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and rewarding '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' one of the worst of Obama's officials.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden: Iran's Economic Savior]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/21/joe-biden-irans-economic-savior/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No nation will gain more from the apparent election victory of former Vice President Joe Biden than Iran. Its gloating response to that event sounds a lot like a gangster selling protection.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Was Obama All Along]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/it-was-obama-all-along/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The publication of a set of notes taken by now-disgraced former FBI agent, Peter Strzok related to the prosecution of former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn provides the first specific evidence that former president Obama was behind the wrongful prosecution of Flynn and,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comey's Stalinists Should Be Facing Jail Time]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/comeys-stalinists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s news brought the welcome report that U.S. Attorney John Durham, investigating possibly illegal misconduct by the FBI and CIA against the Trump campaign, is focusing on the FBI'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s illegal acts in prosecuting President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first national security advisor, Gen....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Preventing Another 'Crossfire Hurricane']]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/preventing-another-crossfire-hurricane/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday's Senate vote rejecting Democrats' demands to call witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial makes the president's acquittal inevitable. But for the Senate bloviators' desire to make more pointless speeches, the acquittal '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' which is scheduled for Wednesday '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' would...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Worse Than a Stopped Clock]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/biden-is-worse-than-a-stopped-clock/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Former Vice President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' never measures up to that standard. In 2014, Bob Gates, who served as President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first secretary of defense, said that Biden had been wrong on almost every foreign policy and national security...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Virginia's Giddy Gun Controllers]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/virginias-giddy-gun-controllers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Calling the state legislature into session last Wednesday, Gov. Ralph Northam could not have been more elated. His Democrats have taken over the state legislature and are giddily preparing to exercise every ounce of their new-found powers. Northam's expansive legislative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Afghan Papers and the Delusions of Nation-Building]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/28/the-afghanistan-papers-and-the-delusions-of-nation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Afghanistan Papers, published by The Washington Post, should be the center of public debate for what they reveal about our longest war. Because the media are chasing the shiny objects of impeachment and election primaries, what should be one of the most important debates since Sept....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The FBI&rsquo;s FISA Frauds]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-fbis-fisa-frauds/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rosemary Collyer is the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the FISC). FISC is the judicial body that issues surveillance warrants to our intelligence agencies, principally the FBI, authorizing the interception of electronic communications of people located...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Confiscation Comes to Virginia]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/gun-confiscation-comes-to-virginia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next year, Democrats will control both houses of Virginia's state Legislature as well as its governorship. On November 18, State Sen. Dick Saslaw introduced a bill that he will sponsor in the 2020 legislative session. That bill will outlaw not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Israel, Another Witch Hunt]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-other-witch-hunt-on-impeachment-and-indictment/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What began as a good week for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended in his indictment for corruption. It is the first time that a sitting Israeli PM has been indicted. Early in the week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War With the Mexican Drug Cartels?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/war-with-the-mexican-drug-cartels/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Movies such as The Godfather attached a perverse, almost romantic, cachet to the Italian Mafia. Movies and television shows are doing the same for Mexican drug cartels. Their chieftains are played by tough-looking men and beautiful women, their murderous cruelty...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Comey-Brennan Conspiracy Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-comey-brennan-conspiracy-to-violate-trumps-civil-rights/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week's publication of the Justice Department Inspector General's report on former FBI director James Comey basically found that he was the leaking, sneaky weasel that he promised President Trump he wouldn't be. Comey claims that he's been cleared and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The CIA Is Running Scared]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-cia-is-running-scared/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jed Babbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday the intelligence community launched its first attack on Attorney General William Barr's investigation into its illegal acts and abuses of power during the 2016 election. In a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' article entitled Justice Department Seeks to Question CIA in its...]]></description>
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